"[Boyce's] work will result from a creative encounter with a campus that is both steeped in history and alive with forward-thinking ideas. Whether through form, material, or narrative, the work will echo UCL's enduring reputation as a space of radical curiosity, inclusive excellence, and transformational knowledge,"
"'the culture of the institution at this important moment in its history'"
""word-and-image set""
""a wall of Spolia""
Sonia Boyce will create the UCL Legacy Commission for University College London's bicentenary at the Bloomsbury campus, opened in 1826. Boyce won the Golden Lion at the 2022 Venice Biennale and serves as professor of black art and design at University of the Arts London. A major public art programme will present three artists-in-residence who will make new works exploring and challenging "the culture of the institution at this important moment in its history". Kreider and O'Leary will install a permanent piece in a new vestibule in the UCL Cloisters and Wilkins Building, transcribing a "word-and-image set" onto salvaged stone to form "a wall of Spolia". Abel Holsborough will be based at the East campus focusing on how communities are built and sustained, and Verity-Jane Keefe will make work in Bloomsbury exploring "power, visible and invisible".
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